Mother's Day Perfume Search - Looking for Old or Discontinued Perfume Lines

Sometimes hunting down a fragrance from yesteryear can be challenging. Fragrances get discontinued, but a tenacious hunter can sometimes uncover those beloved nostalgic scents...in some unlikely places!

Celebrating The Life Of Oskar Shindler

The life of Schindler has so much relevance in today’s multi polar world. He was no Gandhi or Mandela, nor did him resembled Christ or Buddha. Rather, he was a deeply flawed man. He was a Nazi and a war profiteer. A compulsive womaniser, he was frequently disloyal to his wife. After the war, he even abandoned her in Argentina to return to Germany. An incurable spendthrift,he lost millions in his pursuit of the good life. When he died, he was penniless... Yet, at a time when far more moral men and women had been caught up in Hitler's xenophobia or reduced to being mere spectators to what was happening by their own fear, this man answered the call of conscience.

Paris Hilton Gets Locked Up

Would you consider the news that Paris Hilton gets 45 days in jail, that newsworthy that it knocks off events such as the war in Iraq or Dafur off the front page of the BBC newsletter today?

Killing Our Children

As with all terrorism, the Virginia Tech massacre has its roots in the failure of Americans to follow their own pioneering traditions. It is unnecessary and unwise to hire security experts to keep us safe. They can't succeed. But there is a solution.

Three Months Of Cheaper Bus And Train Fares

If there is any transport fare increase this year, take heart that the increase amount will be capped at 1.8%, lower than the 2% increase for GST.

Zippos - Keeping America Lighted for Decades

Zippos are not just lighters. Over the years, they have become iconic symbols of a breed of men and a lifestyle. Rolling Stone Keith Richards keeps a Zippo close to his guitar. In countless Hollywood movies, heroes and villains alike use Zippos to light cigarettes, burn ropes and documents, ignite fuses, or find their way through pitch-black caves and moss-covered caves.

Stay One Step Ahead - Tips to Protect Against Identity Theft

How much information does someone really need to know in order to steal your identity? Your full name? Your birth date? Your mailing address? With this information alone, some could access your existing accounts or establish new loans or credit in your name. Here are some tips you can follow to help protect and secure your personal information and ensure that your identity or your credit have not been compromised.

Ace E-Manifest System - Trucks From Mexico

The new Ace E-Manifest System is now in place and this means that all Mexican trucks coming over our border will be digitally recorded and they will be forced to use the electronic manifest system. This is the latest of several new systems being put in place to protect our Homeland. Of course one has to ask if it will work? Of course I'm sure it will take a little while to get the bugs out and handle the flow.

Quintessential Garter Belt and Panty Combinations that Create the Ultimate Sizzle

This type of lingerie encourages foreplay by virtue of their design; stockings and garter belt styles turn the simple act of disrobing into sensual eye candy for your and your lover.

Portrait Of A Heroine - An Anti-AIDS Leader

The article deals with the biography of Mpule Kwelagobe, one of the most important anti-AIDS activists in the world. She was born in 1979 in Botswana, an African country devastated by HIV and AIDS. Certainly, the intense parts of the article reflect an important global issue - the AIDS pandemic. In the world, there are over 42 million people living with HIV and AIDS - 65% of them are women, children and young people. Botswana is an example.

Survivor, of Sorts

This week's events brought back some chilling memories for me-not something I wanted to be pulled out of the archives. Tragedy is scary, no matter who it hits or where they're from.

Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Shootings - Spotlight Campus Mental Health

If regular, open and candid discussions about mental health were going on in living rooms, schools and boardrooms across the country- if people recognized the urgency in and were just as comfortable with seeking professional help for depression, anxiety, stress and rage as they were for things like diabetes, heart disease and cancer, perhaps tragedies like the one that occurred on the Virginia Tech Campus could be averted in the future.

Socialising

Although it might appear so, being sociable doesn't come easy to everyone, but if you are one of these people, there are many things that you can do in order to help have a better social life. It's important to remember that self confidence goes a long way. Being able to let go of your fears and thoughts of what others think of you can help build your confidence.

Two Ways Our Newspapers Are Committing Suicide

Newspapers pursue political agenda instead of truth or profit. A second problem is that the media unthinkingly support an educational establishment that is busy dumbing down its students, thereby diminishing the number of people who will buy and read newspapers.

Why Prince William and Kate Were Right to Split

There has been mainly hostile reaction to the shock news of Prince William's split from his girlfriend. But that was a kneejerk reaction to the unexpected surprise. Time will prove that they did the right thing.